Riverside College - Tequesquite Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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Has Its Personality BETTER THAN EVER-They say it every year, that this Homecoming was the best, it could be that the evaluation is [e:s than objective, but it can- not be gainsaid that this year ' s Homecoming festivities had just about everything. The floats were indubitably the most elaborate in recent memory; the queen candidates were never love- lier and the queen, when announced, wore her crown with queenly grace indeed; the alumni took an exceptionally active part and injected just the right note of sentiment into the occasion; the football team cooperated magnificently by winning a sp ' endid victory; and last, but certainly not least, the Homecoming dance brought out a host of recent grads and the event proved a gay time indeed for all concerned. As always, of course. Homecoming was a cooperative affair and in bringing such a sizeable project to suc- cessful completion, young men and women from many high schools found they had been welded into a Student Body. HER ROYAL HIGHNESS-Marian Gross admires trophy em- blematic of her election as Homecoming Queen. ECSTASY— Marian Gross (second from left) cries out with happi- ness as she hears she has been elected Homecoming Queen. Applauding in the best spirit of sportsmanship are Princesses Margaret CasssI, Ruth Hernandez, Nancy Leonard, Becky Ramirez, and Carole Strickland. Escorts behind the lovely ladies are Kenneth Smith, Armand Gross (Marian ' s husband), Robert Macias, Ron Learned, Nevio Tontini, and Teddy Martin. Corona- tion exercises were a feature of halftime activities at the game.

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CUTE LITTLE INDIANS-Song leaders Jan Flaherty, Nancy Ashmore, Jane Flannery, Marge Noller (virtually hidden) Suzie Tipton, and Sylvia llcken (also nearly obscured) disguised themselves as redskins (fooling no one naturally) for the Homecoming rally. Their performance was equally weW received at the game. Each Homecoming SENTIMENT-Alumni President George Blatchford pre- sents flowers to Mrs. Ecile Butch ' ' Hawks, recently retired from long-time service in the Tigers Den. The grads later gave Butch an over size coffee cup to com- memorate the many quarts of Java she had poured for generations of RCC students. TIGER TROPHY-Rob Collard, the mischievous spirit which inhabited the tiger skin at football games, lovingly cuddles the Victory Bell, hard-won emblem of triumph over San Bernardino. The bell itself was donated years ago by the Santa Fe Railroad and the wheels are a converted gun carriage contributed by March Air For ce Base to make the trophy a truly cooperative project. Riverside ' s Homecoming victory over the Indians brought the Bell back to its rightful home. v Ht

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Tigers on SIGMA RHO CHI - DELTA CHI DELTA won the Sweepstakes Award with their Indian Fling. 22 COSMOS - GAMMA IOTA ALPHA (left) joined forces to con- struct this float featuring brawny tiger triumphant over a disconsolate Indian. In center panel. Bill Lindstrom ' s head HOMECOMING was a real tiger affair this year, with former Tigers gathering with the present Tiger family and going on the warpath against the San Bernardino Valley College Indians. A large part of the student body took part in the Homecoming activities and helped make the event a big success. The Cabinet started planning weeks before the actual ceremonies began. Committees pow wowed outside Cabinet meet- ings, dreaming up ideas to take back to the parent organization. During this time, campus clubs were constructing floats, with as many as a hundred or more people working on a single float — which of course was to be the float of the year. The traditional queen contest began weeks ahead, too. Women were chosen to run, campaigns were conducted, and finally the elec- tion was at hand, with results illustrated on the previous page. just barely shows above the Eta Pi-Sigma Phi Kappa float which carries an appropriate gridiron scene. Float formalizing proved serious distractions to study, but nobody seemed to mind. i ' ' Jhi : ' ' : f